skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"At one level, it’s easy to see the appeal of The Culture novels to the likes of Bezos and Musk. After all, these men are far closer than anyone else to actually living the life of a Culture citizen. Their every whim is met, and they are free from hunger, struggle, and strife." italics mine

I don't know what world the author lives in but, even though I don't believe all the press about Musk, I'm pretty sure both Bezos and Musk have considerably more struggle and strife going on than I do, despite our day to day, month to month challenges being quite different. And I'm pretty grateful for that. I prefer a very different work/life balance, not that I've seen any indication that Musk thinks his is healthy or even recommended.

It's a cartoonish view of people who made money by starting ventures like this.
Fun fact, wood is a renewable resource that sequesters carbon.
How do you know to search for something if you haven't heard about it before... via some kind of... promotion?

I get the point you're making, but I hope you realize you're just backpedaling from your original "no advertisements ever!" statement.

I believe in giving people better control over how they receive ads (I personally run an ad blocker in my browsers and a Pi Hole on my network), but you position that there should be no advertising at all, and that all ads are unethical is just silly, and you're proving that point yourself here..
Amazing to watch the media as a whole last night attempt to blame people on reddit and 4chan for this "fiasco" and ignoring the underlying culprits who spent BILLIONs in over shorting an equity and were caught with their pants down.
How This isn't a criminal act on the part of these institutions who knowingly over leveraged themselves in hopes no one would have noticed and would have been able to make billions more off of retail investors and legitimate investors is beyond me.

"That's right, it was I who committed the sleazy transactions and short armed robbery. And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for these meddling kids!"
It is possible to make LZ4 decompression even faster, here's how: https://habr.com/en/company/yandex/blog/457612/
The term "cancel culture" is extremely ironic. The implication of the term is that people should not be "cancelled" for expressing their views. And yet, backing out of a book deal, for example, is an expression of a view.

In practice, the term is used to de-legitimize some opinions, while upholding others.

The term "cancel culture" is cancel culture.
Billing time is the absolute worst thing about types of legal practice you're talking about, and absolutely nobody should adopt anything about that system. Economic pressures eventually force granularity of a tenth of an hour. There are no circumstances under which I would ever willingly return to anxiety over whether a bathroom break might take longer than three minutes.
the other 6-7 hours is meetings
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If they don’t like using their free time to write code they don’t have to, it’s free time not work.

So, what it actually comes down to is that they didn’t bother to write tests. There was no time pressure, there was no urgency or requirement, they just couldn’t be bothered to do that prior to release. If there’s a note somewhere saying “I know it’s not quite done...” then I’ll let it slide.

Have you seen something along those lines?
>The data architecture I use combines, in order of importance: (1) borg, for incremental deduplicated backups onsite and offsite; (2) syncthing, for duplication and synchronization across devices; (3) fim, for managing file integrity; (4) rsync, local copy to another drive for convenient restores; and (5) git, in places where commit history is actually useful, like code or dotfiles.

That looks overly complicated

Why is there no single tool that can do all of those?

I think one tool could be much more efficient. Especially since they could reuse the databases. With one database of hashes of each file, it could find the changed files and then incrementally only backup those. No need to have one program to search changed files to copy them, and then again have one program to search changed files to hash them

I mostly use rsync. Occasionally I destroy my backups by calling it wrongly, like missing a trailing slash. That could not happen if the copying and file integrity checking was combined in one tool

>fim combined with incremental backup solves this problem, is filesystem agnostic and painless to migrate around, and is for some reason completely unknown and obscure: https://evrignaud.github.io/fim/

That looks very useful

But it stores the database as json? That is a bad format to store file names. And written in Java it is probably going to be slow
(I have over a million files in ~, and multiple copies of it in the backups, so I care a lot about performance)

So many emojis in the commit log. Is that really necessary nowadays?
Secret Ingredient Found to Power Supernovas (Turbulence)
I consider IKEA to be more or less the ideal home shoppping experience. Some things are picked up along the way, larger things are grabbed at the end. The way they're laid out maximizes usable showroom space, while allowing for entire rooms to be built, with every part showing something you could buy. For anyone looking to furnish their place at a good quality/price, it's the first place I'd think of.
It’s very appealing because it tells people that the reason they’re not making more is not due to anything they could personally improve at but rather their employees taking advantage of their trust and generosity.
Awesome. Can't wait to see the difference between berty and our own in-app messaging system at tabtimize.
I always find this style of reporting rather unedifying -

>No one is in charge of this effort, though, of course, some voices are louder than others.

There has been a history of moderators on WSB using their position to push certain agendas. I think it's more accurate to say "We don't know of any group co-ordinating this effort" - because I don't think its far fetched that there is one.

All this article is really saying is "I've taken this sub-reddit at complete face value."

>They’ve shown, in a sense, that if you pick the right stocks, a self-organized community of small investors can make them rise,

Some users are posting investments of over $750k that are now up to $22m in value. How many people on WSB are actually investing and driving up the price? 10? 100? 1000? We have no idea. I personally find it hard to believe that 1000 redditors are investing enough to actually matter compared to the top investors who are investing hundreds of thousands.
Oncall is a bit special, usually counted as partial time work for time spent not responding to calls, or with overtime rates for time actually called in.
Napoleon’s manuscript on victory at Battle of Austerlitz goes on sale
The old internet is dying. It's utterly impossible to read this site using 'links' or 'lynx'.

Even the link to 'https://g.co/shield' is broken under those text-mode browsers, saying only "Loading...".

For that matter, in the most recent Firefox, if I reload in 'Reader' mode I also get a useless page.
I wish we knew more about the Changers!
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Meetings with people who have no visibility on the brass tacks actual work constitute "communicating well"?
What would prevent your competent cabinet maker from attaching a new hinge and door to an ikea product?
Regarding (2), I think the USP is that you can pick specific more complex component (crystal, Eth PHY, FPGA), and the tool will automatically bring in the correct simple support components (resistors, capacitors). Including matching constraints such as price, tolerances, environment etc. This I think is really useful.
I owned an early Apple ][+ and had no idea it was painted. I don't even recall what I did with it given its been 40+ years and I have owned so many Apple devices...

The original shade of that Apple was much prettier than the beige shade they used later in various Mac models.
Can’t read. Paywall.
Meetings, email, and ops are working.

Playing ping pong and taking 3rd lunch and faffing on HN are not working.
Just as a data point, ~50 years ago was the Hong Kong flu which killed 3-4 million globally.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu
If you're in Bali you should really be surfing now. Put down hacker news right away please.

There should also be a bunch of "digital nomads" running companies and surfing in Bali that you could be hanging out with, and can stand their smugness... I mean if you specifically want to meet entrepreneurs. I'm sure there are even dedicated living communities for digital nomad surfers.
wordstar released in '78 and was insanely popular until the 90s when ms-word mostly took over.
This is an interesting question to ask, regardless of GME. The Robinhood app may have caused an 'eternal September' for the market.

The difference is that people don't have an infinite appetite for losing money, and people are on aggregate losing money as one does when trading with a short term mindset. So I would say that we will eventually leave the meme stock bubble, but it's anyone's guess as to when.
No it’s not just the “the Trumpists” versus everyone else. Almost all of these incidents involve conduct which nobody except a small fraction of the progressive left finds problematic. The mainstream left goes along because they’re afraid of being lumped in with “Trumpists.”

I expect this to change once Trump is gone and mainstream liberals aren’t so terrified of being compared to him.
> Sure, you can make a non-JS fallback version of your interactive elements, but that often takes twice as long

This is largely just not true and the results are often no-entirely-legal. The majority of interactive controls can be supported by extending and styling bone stock html and using progressive enhancement. The only way it takes less time to roll your own solution for most of these components is when you don't bother implementing accessibility for your controls.

That isn't just a few esoteric users at this point, you are now brushing up against the ADA and have just exposed your site to potential legal action, lawsuits, and a big honking fine. (Not to mention the fact that you being an ass to a bunch of people who need that functionality.)
> I'd like to be wrong, though until we require companies to be responsible for all costs associated with the full lifecycle of a product so externalized costs are incorporated, we're not going to develop the most sustainable practices.

Why only the companies should be responsible?

I would say it's fairer to share the "blame" with everyone else. The consumers, the government, the whole society.
Lawyers don't live in anxiety of that. They accept that is part of work and find ways to bill for it.
My best friend went to UCSD for his PhD in biology. He was brilliant and had a nearly unique depth of insight into knotty problems and an incredible drive to progress the field. Unfortunately he was also a bit of an idealist with little real political sense.

In grad school he selected a difficult problem in the cancer space and worked on it in the lab for 6 years. His advisor thought he was on track for a Nature paper. Around the end of year 6 a very famous scientist who was on his larger committee decided he wanted the research for himself (apparently). He had one of his floater grad students (in their last years of grad school without any research of their own to publish) literally steal his data from his desk. They eventually published their ‘stolen’ paper in Nature themselves, before my friend could have finished writing it up by himself.

My friend found he was unable to compete with the reputation of this scientist and was repeatedly told to just move on - even his own advisor suggested that there was nothing to do about it and complaining to the university ethics committee would only hurt his career. He tried anyway, entirely unsuccessfully.

My friend was not able to move on. He left grad school with an exit Masters. He spent a few years in his parents house lost, then in institution really really lost. He eventually got himself together and built up the courage to try again (roughly 10 years later). He got into a good bioinformatics program on the opposite coast of the country. Eventually the same exact thing started happening to him again. Things got bad. I left work early one day to go cheer him up and long story short I found his body in the bathtub of his apartment. He was just not ready to go through it all again.

I still think about him every single day more than a year out from his funeral. I find myself unable to understand why some humans treat each other the way that they do or how they are able to get away with it. I’ve asked around and it seems like this is a fairly common occurrence, especially in circles around the original ‘famous’ scientist. These people basically killed my friend, don’t know it and probably wouldn’t care. They likely rationalize their behavior as the cost of doing science.

The system is absolutely disgustingly broken and much of published and celebrated science is, in one way or another, a lie. We need to stop making scientists into rockstars, especially those who somehow publish more papers in a year than physically possible. Each one of these untouchable individuals is followed by an unseen trail of ruined careers and ruined lives.

The field would not have suffered. My friend’s work would still have been published. The difference is that it wouldn’t have added to the myth of exceptionalism of this particular scientist - and maybe the floater grad student would not have gotten her PhD... but in the end my friend didn’t get his PhD either and now he isn’t here any more. Scientific prestige is not a limited resource and should not be subject to the tragedy of the commons.

My young daughter asks about him a lot and I have no idea what to say.
I recently built a project on an ESP32 using Micropython. My project had a web application using web sockets and there were good libraries in Micropython.

My take on Micropython is that it is a small community with just a handful of long term dedicated contributors. It is a little rough around the edges, especially when you get into the details of board support other than the pyboard. For example I had issues with interrupts interacting with Python threads in the web sockets library. The documentation was flat out wrong and I had to figure things out on my own.

I ordered a couple accessory boards off Amazon, a high precision ADC and a real time clock. Both were fakes. They had swapped out chips with lower grade components. When I ordered from Adafruit I got the real things.

The big downside of the Circuit Python fork is that Adafruit deprecated their Micropython libraries for their boards. That seems like it will have long term impact to Micropython.
There is no single lens length that can capture all types of phenomena that journalism is interested in.

And a single lens length does not solve a problem. What if you wait for people to leave a bus and capture at exact moment when they are out of the bus but haven't had time to disperse yet? What if you cut the bus out of the shot and extend it to the street.

Your idea is naive in the extreme in that it would solve anything.
Ask HN: Choosing the Next Job
I am a 36 y/o engineer from Tel Aviv, in between jobs.

I am looking for advice, as I really am torn between 4 options.

For more than a decade I did mostly front end and some back end.

I've launched a few products (all have failed) and co-founded a startup, long ago.

I'm a UI-centric, product enthusiast, who's next big thing he'd like to explore is Deep Learning, specifically image processing.

The four companies I'm considering are:

* Lemonade - pros: great product, mature company (better compensation); cons: mature company (I'm looking for a place where I can do more than just code)

* Gong - pros: great product, mature company; cons: mature company

* Deepdub - pros: cool idea, small team (I will be able to touch product, UI/UX); cons: nothing that's worth mentioning

* AI21 Labs - pros: great product, mid size (more aspects I can take part of); cons: nothing that's worth mentioning

I am leaning towards the smaller ones, as I believe I will have more "creative freedom" (the ability to "one-man-show" stuff, as I really enjoy doing*), but I feel like mentioning the other 2 is still relevant.

I'm trying to keep this post as short as possible, I hope this gives a pretty good description of my dilemma.

Considering all companies seem have great people, who seem fun to work with (AI21 exceptionally), how would you approach this question?

* note that I am a team player, and leading a 3-4 person "squad" is a dream, but I don't aim for that right now)
> If your browser requests Evil Resource without telling advertiser the name of top-level site, the advertiser gets little.

But the advertiser will get the referrer so will know the domain name?

(And if they didn't, they could require the site operator to include the site name in the resource URL.)
Good article. For more on this subject try:

https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/08/11/how-many-undetec...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52199285-science-fiction...
What was the questionable decision?
Real furniture can last 100 years.
i work with a guy who claims like 15 hours of overtime per week... his total output is prbably like 0.1x what a normal developer does... constantly adds bugs, never squashes his commits (to show extra 'work' being done'...).
typicial commits for 1 day of work:

- add 3 docstring for 3 setter functions (max 10 lines each). (1 day)

- fix a codesmell, ~15 character syntax change, whose 'fix' is given freely by the analysis plugins' web app. (1 day)

- change a version number in a file (1 day)

In total I'd say he does maybe .5 hours of work a day...

I'm probably around 4-5 hours, but knowing hes claiming overtime ontop just kills me lol.
I am not sure about cheap ARM devices but I am using an old Haswell i5-4670 and it is more than enough. So it won't be issue later.

Also, when you are talking about consumer NAS, the real problem is that any low-end systems can saturate the gigabit network (100MB/s) very easily so investing on extra resources for ZFS doesn't make difference. At least a 10Gbe network (which is beyond the average consumer) is required to actually make it useful.
That's great if it meets your needs, but I don't think that's a good argument for why other people shouldn't have the option to buy stuff from Ikea. Population growth alone dictates there's not enough furniture from a hundred years ago for everyone to furnish their homes.
The only p2p messenger I've used that hasn't suffered too badly from "blank canvas" is Manyverse.

It's technically not a dedicated messenger (more like a p2p encrypted Facebook equivalent, with a p2p FBMessenger equivalent built-in as a side feature), but that aspect just makes it a lot easier to find people to chat with.

It's unfortunately not quite as stable/performant as Briar though (yet).
I physically cannot make myself work more than I already am, my brain is utterly destroyed from lockdown; My memory is shot, my motivation is shot, fundamentally my ability to think has declined to the point where I'm seriously worried, and the fact this seems to be the case for everyone else isn't helping at all. Before you ask yes I tried taking a holiday and it actually made things worse.
It's not a Firefox issue, it's an issue Jitsi has with Firefox which is the context of the parent comment
I think you meant Kotlin Multiplatform: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/mpp-intro.html. Kotlin/Native is a LLVM-based backend which is used in case of Kotlin Multiplatform for iOS part.
Hey, I'm not sure why you're answering me from 2 separate accounts (I know it's you because you accidentally(?) replied to another post from your other account with this one, speaking in the first person about the other message).

People seek out information on what to buy because at some point they found out about it via (perhaps indirectly) the provider's promotional efforts (i.e. advertising).

We can certainly talk about the appropriateness of when an where to advertise, but that's a very different topic than your ALL ADS ARE UNETHICAL screeds that you've posted in like a dozen threads on this topic from 2 different accounts..

Never mind continuing to believe that somehow those of us who engage with advertising are lying to ourselves or somehow less in control of things than you?

Now who's spinning a web..
On the truth of beliefs:

""Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

-- Terry Pratchett, Hogfather. https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/583655-hogfather
this looks very epic. as a brockchain artist, will i be able to add my own style to your configurator?
Very much agree on the use of general language, not inventing another tool specific language that _almost_ looks like some well known, established language.

Being able to use other libs, reuse language features and knowledge brings so much extra benefits.
That's why section 230 needs to be re-written. I'm fine with moderation, and I'm fine with sites that publish user-generated content defining their own content rules.
What I'm not fine with are rules that are unevenly enforced in order to play favorites.
I would reform section 230 so say that you must post the site's user-generated content rules, and you must post a moderation log. The moderation log would consist of the list of moderation actions taken and the accounts affected, and the time. Any moderation action that appears to not align with the stated content policy should be reviewable by a third party accredited arbitrator, at the plantiff's expense.
The net effect of this scenario would be to cause the sites to write down detailed rules about content, and enforce them fairly on all sides.
Right now there are simply too many flagrantly biased or inaccurate moderation decisions on these sites, and many of them seem to be motivated by political or economic reasons.
It's one thing to ask that sites be the "public square" because of the huge gift of liability protection that section 230 grants. This argument has not held up in courts. It's a totally different thing to require sites play by their own rules, and hold them accountable for each hypocritical moderation action that genuinely hurts the "little guy"
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Facebook apologises for flagging Plymouth Hoe as offensive term
You don’t necessarily need to enforcement at the whole region but at the perimeter where heavy machinery and cargo need to pass to reach customers. But since this comes with a big cost still UN should help out with enforcing such laws.
Sorry, how does a government bring in tax revenue off of exports? Tarrifs are levied on imports rather than exports.

Sure they would make less money off corporation taxes with lower exports, but as those receipts are generally low anyway the tradeoff going to carbon tax would likely be favourable.